Pfizer’s defeat is the best news for British industry for a very long time, but it still leaves a lot of unfinished business. In particular there are three issues that urgently need to be determined now, well before the next crunch comes about Britain’s strategic industrial assets. The first is obviously that we need a […]
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Why AstraZeneca’s ownership matters
May 8th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Some points about the attempted take over of AstraZeneca by American pharmaceuticals behemoth, Pfizer. 1. On Newsnight yesterday evening, Chuka Umunna made the dialectically nuanced observation that there are good takeovers and bad takeovers, regardless of the nationality of who is making the purchase. A bad takeover might be Kraft’s swallowing of Cadbury, who’ve cut jobs and […]